Cookies – What They Are & How We Use Them
Cookies are small text files that our website and sometimes emails place in your computer to ensure that your experience of our offerings is as effective as possible. They remember any options you have chosen for example and your password or particular interests. They also enable us to track visitors’ usage of our site so that we can continuously improve it. There’s nothing mysterious about them and they do not collect personal data. Like pretty much all website owners we have always operated cookies and visitors have had the benefit of using them. EU regulations now require us to inform you of what they are and give you the option to prohibit them if you wish.
We are using the word ‘cookies‘ here to include things like ‘web beacons’ and ‘Flash cookies’ which serve similar functions. ‘Your computer’ includes anything connected to the internet including laptops, office machines, tablets, mobile phones and so on.
Now, or in the future, we may use cookies in the following categories:
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies help to make a website usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.
| Name | Description | Declared as |
|---|---|---|
| _ab | Used in connection with access to admin. | Essential |
| _secure_session_id | Used in connection with navigation through a storefront. | Essential |
| __cfduid | The _cfduid cookie helps Cloudflare detect malicious visitors to our Customers’ websites and minimizes blocking legitimate users. | Essential |
| Cart | Used in connection with shopping cart. | Essential |
| cart | Used in connection with shopping cart. | Essential |
| cart_sig | Used in connection with checkout. | Essential |
| cart_ts | Used in connection with checkout. | Essential |
| cart_ver | Used in connection with shopping cart. | Essential |
| checkout_token | Used in connection with checkout. | Essential |
| Secret | Used in connection with checkout. | Essential |
| secure_customer_sig | Used in connection with customer login. | Essential |
| storefront_digest | Used in connection with customer login. | Essential |
| _shopify_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. | Essential |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Used in connection with GDPR legal Cookie. | Essential |
| gdpr_legal_cookie_session | Used in connection with GDPR legal Cookie. | Essential |
| _bc_c_set | Used in connection with GDPR legal Cookie. | Essential |
| _tracking_consent | For Shopify User Consent Tracking. | Essential |
| _shopify_m | Used for managing customer privacy settings. | Essential |
| _shopify_tm | Used for managing customer privacy settings. | Essential |
| _shopify_tw | Used for managing customer privacy settings. | Essential |
| _storefront_u | Used to facilitate updating customer account information. | Essential |
| cart_currency | Used in connection with cart and checkout. | Essential |
Statistical and Marketing Cookies
Statistical cookies help shop owners understand how customers interact with websites by anonymously collecting and reporting information. Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across Web pages. The goal is to serve advertisements that are relevant and appealing to the individual user and are therefore more valuable to third-party advertisers.
| Name | Description | Declared as |
|---|---|---|
| _orig_referrer | Used in connection with shopping cart. | Marketing & Analytics |
| _landing_page | Track landing pages. | Marketing & Analytics |
| _s | Shopify analytics. | Marketing & Analytics |
| _shopify_d | Shopify analytics. | Marketing & Analytics |
| _shopify_fs | Shopify analytics. | Marketing & Analytics |
| _shopify_s | Shopify analytics. | Marketing & Analytics |
| _shopify_y | Shopify analytics. | Marketing & Analytics |
| _y | Shopify analytics. | Marketing & Analytics |
| _shopify_sa_p | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. | Marketing & Analytics |
| _shopify_sa_t | Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. | Marketing & Analytics |
| _shopify_uniq | Shopify analytics. | Marketing & Analytics |
| _shopify_visit | Shopify analytics. | Marketing & Analytics |
| tracked_start_checkout | Shopify analytics relating to checkout. | Marketing & Analytics |
| ki_r | Shopify analytics. | Marketing & Analytics |
| ki_t | Shopify analytics. | Marketing & Analytics |
| ab_test_* | Shopify analytics. | Marketing & Analytics |
